八福
耶稣心理学
经文
约翰福音二12-25
12这事以后，耶稣与他的母亲、弟兄、和门徒都下迦百农去，在那里住了不多几日。
13犹太人的逾越节近了，耶稣就上耶路撒冷去。
14看见殿里有卖牛、羊、鸽子的，并有兑换银钱的人坐在那里，
15耶稣就拿绳子作成鞭子，把牛羊都赶出殿去，倒出兑换银钱之人的银钱，推翻他们的桌子，
16又对卖鸽子的说：把这些东西拿去！不要将我父的殿当作买卖的地方。
17他的门徒就想起经上记着说：我为你的殿心里焦急，如同火烧。
18因此犹太人问他说：你既作这些事，还显什么神迹给我们看呢？
19耶稣回答说：你们拆毁这殿，我三日内要再建立起来。
20犹太人便说：这殿是四十六年才造成的，你三日内就再建立起来吗？
21但耶稣这话是以他的身体为殿。
22所以到他从死里复活以后，门徒就想起他说过这话，便信了圣经和耶稣所说的。
23当耶稣在耶路撒冷过逾越节的时候，有许多人看见他所行的神迹，就信了他的名。
24耶稣却不将自己交托他们；因为他知道万人，
25也用不着谁见证人怎样，因他知道人心里所存的。
信息分享
昨天我们提到精神病专家费希尔博士的话，他说当他在寻找构成精神健康的正面态度时，他看到了八福以后就知道没有再继续寻找的必要。
费希尔博士在帮助了有精神、情绪或身体问题的人差不多五十年以后，他总结说：「如果你要综合由最专业的心理学家和精神病学家所写、关于「心理卫生」的权威性文章，如果你要将这些文章结合、提炼，将多余的废话除去；如果你要去芜存菁；如果你要最拔尖的诗人言简意赅地表达这些纯科学知识，你就会发现，与我们主耶稣的八福相比，牠们是不完整的，是相形见拙的。」
牧者兼基督徒心理学家克拉默（Raymond Cramer）称八福为「耶稣的心理学」，他也说了相仿的话。有些人可能认为用「耶稣的心理学」来形容八福很不恰当，但要记得，说这话的是一位科学家。在研究人类行为的法则，并寻求是什么东西把人带到整合的高峰时，克拉默看到耶稣在八福中的话，他认为这是最清楚和最简洁地表达了个人可以得到满足和内在快乐的原则。在我们现今这么一个对人类行为感到着迷的时代里面，只有一种心理学是真正的心理学，那就是耶稣心理学。
「只有一种真正的心理学」
进深研究
西一1-20，二9-10；约一16；弗一22-23
1. 什么地方可以找到圆满？
2. 这对我们有什么意义？
祈祷
天父，我明白心理学和所有其他「学科」，只有在带到您脚前时才是有效的。亲爱的主，求您让我不只是看到当怎样生活，更看到怎样丰盛地生活。奉耶稣的名祈求，阿们。
The Beatitudes
"The psychology of Jesus"
Bible reading:
John 2:12-25
12 After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples. There they stayed for a few days.
13 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14 In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money.
15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
16 To those who sold doves he said, "Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father's house into a market!"
17 His disciples remembered that it is written: "Zeal for your house will consume me."[a]
18 The Jews then responded to him, "What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?"
19 Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days."
20 They replied, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?"
21 But the temple he had spoken of was his body.
22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
23 Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many people saw the signs he was performing and believed in his name.[b]
24 But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all people.
25 He did not need any testimony about mankind, for he knew what was in each person.
Message
Yesterday we touched on the statement of a psychiatrist, Dr James Fisher, who said that when searching for the positive attitudes which made for good mental health, he came across and realised that he need search no longer.
After nearly fifty years' experience of helping people with mental, emotional and physical problems he concluded: "If you were to take the total sum of all authoritative articles ever written by the most qualified of psychologists and psychiatrists on the subject of mental hygiene - if you were to combine them and refine them and cleave out the excess verbiage - if you were to take the whole of the meat and none of the parsley, and if you were to have these unadulterated bits of pure scientific knowledge concisely expressed by the most capable of living poets, you would have an awkward and incomplete summation of our Lord's Beatitudes - and it would suffer immeasurably through comparison."
Dr Raymond Cramer, a minister and a Christian psychologist, says something similar when he describes as "the psychology of Jesus". Some may find that expression unacceptable when applied to , but remember, this is a scientist who is speaking. In studying the laws of human behaviour and seeking to discover what brings a person to his highest point of integration, he came to see that the words of Jesus in are the clearest and most succinct expression of the principles by which a person can know contentment and inner happiness. In an age which is fascinated with the study of human behaviour, there is only one true psychology - psychology of Jesus.
"There is only one true psychology"
Prayer
Father, I see that psychology, as well as all other "-ologies", are only valid as they are brought to Your feet. Show me, dear Lord, not just how to live, but how to live abundantly. In Jesus' Name I pray. Amen.
Further study
Colossians 1:1-20; 2:9-10
John 1:16
Ephesians 1:22-23
1. Where is fulness found?
2. What does this mean for us?
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